Oren Etzioni
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Oren Etzioni is Chief Executive Officer at AI2. He is Professor Emeritus, University of Washington as of October 2020 and a Venture Partner at the Madrona Venture Group since 2000. His awards include AAAI Fellow and Seattle’s Geek of the Year. He has founded several companies including Farecast (acquired by Microsoft). He has written over 200 technical papers, as well as commentary on AI for The New York Times, Wired, and Nature. He helped to pioneer meta-search, online comparison shopping, machine reading, and Open Information Extraction.
Talks and Interviews
- Artificial Intelligence will empower us, not exterminate us (TEDx Seattle; November 19, 2016)
- Interview: The Sequence (TheSequence, 2021)
- Podcast: The case against (worrying about) existential risk from AI (Towards Data Science, 2021)
- Podcast: AI Ignition (Deloitte, 2021)
- Lecture with Andrew Ng: Natural Language Processing with Attention Models (Coursera, 2020)
- Interview: Is GPT-3 Intelligent? A Directors’ Conversation with Oren Etzioni (Stanford HAI, 2020)
- Podcast: Behind the Tech with Kevin Scott (Microsoft, 2020)
Selected Works
- How homeowners defeated Zillow’s AI, which led to Zillow Offers’ demise (GeekWire, 2022)
- 4 Ways Startups Will Drive GPT-3 Adoption in 2021 (TechCrunch, 2021)
- AI Can Help Scientists Find a Covid-19 Vaccine (Wired, 2020)
- How to know if artificial intelligence is about to destroy civilization (MIT Tech Review, 2020)
- AI Academy Under Siege (Inside HigherEd, 2019)
- Analysis: Seattle startup ecosystem poised for unprecedented acceleration of company creation (GeekWire, 2019)
- High Stakes AI Decisions Need to be Automatically Audited (Wired, 2019)
- We have the basis for an international AI treaty (The Hill, 2019)
- How Will We Prevent AI-Based Forgery? (Harvard Business Review, 2019)
- What Trump’s Executive Order On AI Is Missing (Wired, 2019)
- Should AI Technology be Regulated? Yes, and Here’s How (CACM, 2018)
- A ‘Manhattan Project’ for science research (The Hill, 2018)
- A Hippocratic Oath for artificial intelligence practitioners (TechCrunch, 2018)
- How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence (New York Times, 2017)
- Workers Displaced By Automation Should Try a New Job: Caregiver (Wired, 2017)
- AI zooms in on highly influential citations (Nature, 2017)
- Deep Learning Isn’t Magic (Wired, 2016)
- No, the Experts Don’t Think Superintelligent AI is a Threat to Humanity (MIT Tech Review, 2016)
- Quora Session with Oren Etzioni (Quora, 2016)
- To Keep AI Safe – Use AI (Vox, 2016)
- AI Won’t Exterminate Us — it Will Empower Us (Backchannel, 2014)
- From Star Trek to Siri: How the Machine-Reading Revolution will dictate the future (CNN, 2013)
- Web Search Needs a Shakeup (Nature, 2011)
- Open Information Extraction from the Web (CACM, 2008)
- A Softbot-based Interface to the Internet (CACM, 1994)